Online testing.. what a great thing!

Online assessment is a great new innovation for students. It is great to be able to have some flexibility with writing exams especially when a student have a busy schedule and have two exams on the same day. It allows for them to be able to balance their schedules. My experience with webct as an online assessment has been very good. I enjoy the flexibility of writing my tests over a period of time. I enjoy this because sometimes I have many things due on the same day and therefore find myself overwhelmed with work if they are all due on the same day. So with being able to write some tests online over a period of time I can manage my time better and allows me more time to study for my exams. The environment of writing webct exams is still very structured but not as stressful as a classroom exam, though there are invigilators in the testing center.

Even in the readings “Online Assessments” it talks about how online assessments are being used by Australian universities as it helps with diversifying assessment tasks. They also talk about how the increase in the use of technology allows for the adaptation of this new way of assessment. I think that more professors should really start adapting to this way of testing as I think it will give students a lot more flexibility to writing their tests and more time to study if need be.

Online Assessments are also ways students can practice for their tests, with online practice tests for all their chapters. I found a neat video link that talks about online assessments in different countries that are actually helping school kids enjoy!

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8856826325487604217&q=online+assessment&total=221&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

Learning objectives

The learning objectives tutorial found at http://www.eduworks.com/LOTT/Tutorial/index.html was an awesome website to really get an idea of what learning objectives was all about.

One thing that I learnt on this website which I thought was cool was “SCORM” the shareable Content Objective Reference Model. It showed me how SCORM was used and how it is packaged and how it is used. It discussed topics like LMS ( which is the learning management systems) which I had never known about and discussed more in detail of what was the so great about SCORM.

This website also discussed the prose of and cons of learning objectives in relations with production costs, flexibility, pedagogy, end user cost and industry support. For someone who is not an ED student this was really interesting to see how things are happening now a day’s with online learning and the learning objectives that must be given to the student and the process one must undergo to get it done.